A 25-year-old man in New York says he makes more money by streaming his life online than he did previously working a traditional job. Work that isn’t work Jovan Hill has found a much better way to earn a living than putting in 40 hours a week at his previous …
Read MoreA controversial measure giving mobile phone carriers more power over how they manage text messages was passed by the FCC yesterday in a party-line vote, and could derail California’s plan to tax text messages in that state. The Republican majority in the FCC successfully initiated and pushed through a change …
Read MoreNew York Governor Andrew Cuomo and Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel are both advocating for the legalization of marijuana as ways of boosting state coffers to meet financial obligations. NY Governor wants to legalize marijuana in New York by 2019 New York Governor Andrew Cuomo plans to call on the state …
Read MoreA federal district court judge has ordered Stormy Daniels to pay the attorneys of President Donald Trump nearly $300,000 in legal fees that were accrued in the defamation suit she brought against him earlier this year. Adult film star Stormy Daniels was ordered by a federal judge in a California …
Read MoreCalifornia public utilities regulators are considering a plan to charge cell phone users in the state a fee for sending text messages, as another way of collecting taxes to help subsidize programs in the state. Taxing text messages If California’s Public Utilities Commission (PUC) gets their way, California consumers could …
Read MoreIf you’re still using Google+ as a social network you may want to consider deleting your profile. The network has been hit with a second breach affecting over 52.5 million users worldwide. That is twice now in a few months that hackers have breached data on the Google+ social network. …
Read MoreTime magazine has made a group of journalists its 2018 “Person of the Year,” referring to the reporters as “the Guardians,” which includes slain Washington Post contributor Jamal Khashoggi, who was killed at the Saudi Arabian consulate Istanbul in October. A dangerous time to be a journalist Sending out the …
Read MoreAcross the globe, compelling people to use preferred pronouns for transgenders seems likely to head to the courts, which could lead to mandatory speech laws. This could mean criminal penalties for not referring to transgenders by designated or preferred pronouns. It seems like every week now, issues over how to …
Read MoreDevelopers at Caltech, NASA and Honda have teamed up to develop a new battery that can store ten times the power of current lithium-ion batteries. There is hardly anyone in life who doesn’t depend on batteries in some way. Whether it’s on their vehicles, smartphones or life-saving devices – almost …
Read MoreThe governments of France and Canada are leading the way in establishing a global study group, similar to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, to study the worldwide changes occurring through technology in artificial intelligence (AI). The new study group will be called the International Panel on Artificial Intelligence. The …
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